Combined tack hammer and distributer



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 J. S. BAILEY. COMBINED TA K HAMMER AND DISTRIBUTER. No. 426,095. Patented Apr. 22, 1890.

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J. S. BAILEY. COMBINED TACK HAMMER AND DISTRIBU'TER.

No. 426,095. Patented-Apr. 22, 890.

WITNEEIEEE I INVEINVTIIIFI UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN S. BAILEY, OF BUCKlNG-HAM, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ARTHUR D. MARKLEY, OF HATBOROUGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED TACK HAMMER AND DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,095, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed April 17,1889. Serial No. 307,573- (No model.)

. hammers, and has for its object to provide novel and efficient means for placing or stick ing tacks in carpets or other places preparatory to driving the same into the wood beneath, such operations being accomplished with the use of but one hand, thus facilitating and greatly accelerating the speed with which said tack placing and driving are performed, and wholly obviating the danger of injury to the fingers of the operator.

My invention consists in the construction of an attachment which is secured to the handle of the hammer through the medium of its base-plate said device having an elevated magazine or receptacle with a converter therein for insuring the entrance of the tacks into the neck of the magazine heads downward and the prevention of the admission of tacks thereto with abnormally large or irregular heads, said neck being hopper-shaped and terminating in a spout, into which spout project releasing and separating levers, which are dependent for their movement upon the depression of the outer end of a pivoted lever, said end being within the boundary of that portion of the handle which is grasped by the hand. The tacks when liberated by the releasing-lever drop in their inverted condition into a pivoted receiver having a magnetized bottom, so as to prevent the tacks from dropping out when the receiver is given a semicircular movement through the medium of a pi nion thereon meshing with a rack on the end of a pivoted shifting lever, which lever is so arranged relatively to the lever which operates the separating and releasing arms that when the latter lever is moved sufficiently to release a tack a continuation of such movement will operate the lever of the oscillating receiver and swing the latter to its inverted position with the tack therein pointing downward ready to be stuck in the carpet or elsewhere, after which the releasing of pressure on the thumb-piece of the main operating-lever will allow all the parts to automatically return to their normal position. The driving of the tack is accomplished with the head of the hammer, as ordinarily. Thus, as will be readily understood, the entire operation of placing and driving the tacks is accomplished while the hand is grasping the handle of the hammer.

The above features will be more particularly described and claimed hereinafter and clearly understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention, showing some of the parts in vertical section and' the hammer-handle broken away. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same partly broken away. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the converter, and Fig. 4 is a similar view of the main operating-levers broken away. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of myinvention complete and ready for operation.

A represents the magazine or tack-receptacle, which is screwed or otherwise secured in the upturned edge or flange b of the hopper-shaped neck B, and is provided with the cap a for the opening in its neck. Said neck B has secured to its lower end the spent 1). This spout, as is quite obvious, maybe formed integral with the hopper-shaped neck, although it is shown as being fitted into the lower end of the neck: and having an annular flange b for limiting its movement. This spout has also longitudinal kerfs or slits in its sides, as shown at I) Z), located diametrically opposite each other, the former of which is the shorter of the two. The purposes of these slits will be described hereinafter.

C is a collar which partially encircles the spout h and abuts against the flange b the free end of said collar clearing the slit 1). The other end of this collar has a lateral extension or arm 0 for-med integral therewith, said arm curling upwardly and tapering toward its end 0, having in said end an eye or orifice c and affording a bearing for a screw 0 near said end. Pivoted on this screw is an arm 1), having its pivotal point near its outer end and the portion. thereof beyond said the slit b and into the inside of the spout b and is tapered almost to a point. The portion of said arm D between the tapering portion d and its pivotal point is widened, so as to ali'orda bearing for the screw (1 on which is pivoted the link or connecting-bar e, which is pivoted at its other end on the screw e in the end of the lever E. Said lever E is pivoted at its center on a pin formed on the baseplate F, and having thereon awasherf', which serves to prevent friction between the said lever and the retaining-pin f said pin f also having thereon another washer f for preventing friction between the lever E and the lever G, which is also pivoted at its center g on the pin f. Lever E, beyond its pivotal point and toward its outer end 6 is twisted at 6 so that its outer end will be at right anglesor in a transverse plane relatively to the vertical plane of its inner end 6 said outer end havingtherein a shank 77,,with a shoulder h", abutting against the end 6 of the lever E, and is surmounted by the thumb-piece H, which affords means for depressing the said lever, and the twist therein allows said outer end to spring downwardly or continue its movement after the inner end 6 has reached the end or limit of its movement, said continuation bringing the said thumb-piece H into contact with the end g of the lever G, which end is slotted at g for the passage of the shank h, depressing said end and of course raising its inner end 9 having formed thereon or secured thereto the segmental rack which meshes with or gears into the pinion 2', formed on or integral with or secured to the flattened base i of the tack-receiver I, imparting a semicircularreciprocating movement to said receiver, accordingly as the lever G is depressed or allowed to return to its normal position. This receiver, when in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. l of the drawings, also serves as a distributer for the tacks, which are sustained or suspended in the receiver when in this position by reason of the fact that the upper portion 2' of the base 11, which is the bottom of the receiver, is magnetized and split so as to form poles, as in an ordinary magnet, the heads of the tacks adhering thereto until their points are stuck into the wood, when a slight draft on the hammer-handle will operate to separate the tacks from the magnetized bottom of the receiver. This receiver, with its pinion, is pivoted on the pin f in the arm f of the baseplate F, which base-plate is secured to the handle K of the head by the screws f, said pin being so disposed as to bring the flaring mouth '6 of the shell 2' of the receiver I, which shell encircles the rounded magnetized end i of the base and is of .diamagnetic material, as is also the pinion 2, directly beneath the mouth of the spout I), being secured against passing this point by its contact with a pin 1 in the arm f When the receiver I reaches the point shown in the dotted lines, it contacts with another pin Z, which limits its movement in that direction, the pivotal point of said receiver being so placed as to bring the point of the tack therein at the side of the hammer-head when in its inverted position. The base-plate F has another arm ,1, which extends upwardly and has its end f bent at an angle corresponding with the slant of the magazine A, which bent end affords a bearing for a screw a, which passes into the flange b and sustains the magazine A. It is quite obvious that the magazine Acan be arranged so as to stand straight or'vertically, projecting over the upper end of the hammer-head 76. It will be observed that the shifting-lever Gr has secured in a kerf in its upper edge and between its pivotal. point and rack end a curved spring 9 which bears against a pin g in the bedplate F and serves to return said lever and receiver I to their normal position when pressure is released from the thumb-piece H, which is also the purpose of the spiral springs M M, both of which are secured to the end 0 through the hole 0' in the arm 0, the spring M being also secured to the end n of the releasing-arm N through the hole at. This arm is substantially S- shaped, and is pivoted midway of its ends on a pin 41 in the arm C, the lower end a of this S-shaped lever projecting for some distance through the slit 1) and into the spout b. The pivotal point of this arm N is so placed as to bring the curved portion or of the curved end it into the path of travel of the projecting inner end of the screw d so that when the arm D is raised through the depression of the lever E until the end thereof strikes and raises the tack 0, which, as shown, prevents the free movement of the tack 0, which is resting on the releasing-arm N, the said screw will force the end or upwardly, causing the end 02 to recede from the spout and allow the tack o to drop into the receiver.

When the aforesaid pressure on lever E is released, the separatingarm D will return to its normal position under the influence of the spring M, which is secured to the end alt-hereof, thus permitting tack 0 to assume the position on the arm N which has just been vacated by tack 0, and the tack o to take the place of tack 0, and so on until the quantity of tacks in the magazine is exhausted. It may be found preferable to use a single spring in lieu of the two springs M M, in which case said spring would be secured at its middle to the end of the arm 0.

Now, in order to insure the entrance of the tacks to the hoppershaped neck B heads downwardly, there is provided the converter P, which consists of a circular disk 19, fitting snugly within the flange I) of the said neck and contiguous to the lower edge of the magazine A, which keeps said converter in its place. This disk has a series of six key-hole slots 1) radially arranged therein, with the straight portions 13 thereof nearest the center of the disk and the circular portions 12*, which are beveled at 19 breaking through the pe riphery of the disk, as shown at p, and are of slightly less diameter than the inside of the spout b, so as to prevent the passage of abnormally large-headed tacks or tacks with irregular heads, thus avoiding the clogging up of said spout. Disk 13 is also provided with a deflector R, mounted on a standard 0 secured in an opening in said disk and projecting upwardly therefrom, which deflector serves to change the position of the tacks when they strike the deflector with their points or at an angle with their heads otherwise than downward. The operation of said deflector will be clearly understood upon reference to Fig. 1 of the drawings, 0 represent ing a tack after its side has struck the deflector, its head being its heaviest portion, sliding on the walls of the magazine and into its proper position on the disk.

0 represents atack in a position of further progress than 0 and 0 represents a tack after having struck the deflector with its point and tilting toward the walls of the tackreceptacle.

0 represents a tack having passed the deflector point first without striking thereon, its shank extendinginto the neck l3 and its head in contact with the plate 19 and the portion 5'' of the said neck, in which position, although it cannot enter the spout 7), because the clearance between the lower surface of the said plate and that part of Z nearest the openings is a little less than the distance between the rim of the tack-head and the far side of the shank of the tack, yet it is in such position, owing to the incline of the portion b, that it will be easily shaken out by an agitation or shaking of the magazine in the operation of tack driving without becoming wedged therein.

The movements of a tack after passing through one of the openings 1) and preparatory to it assumingthe position of the tack o in. the receiver I, which is flared at its mouth to facilitate the entrance of the tack, are as follows; After the head of the tack strikes the portion 11 of the neck. 13 the same slides thereon until its shank is in the narrow or straight portion 19 of the slot )9, as shown at 0 in which position the tack will drop almost vertically until the head thereof is ready to enter the spout l1 and the tack into the position of 0, the narrow portion 1) guiding the tack by means of its shank.

While the disk 1) is shown and described as having a series of six key-hole slots, it is quite obvious that any number of openings maybe therein provided, governed by the size of the spout and the size of tacks to be used.

The dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings show the respective positions of all of the different parts when the thumb-piece His depressed to its fullest extent, and such depression correspondingly depresses the outer end of the lever E, and the motion is communicated to the lever G through contact of said thumb-piece with the latter lever. These depressions of course raise the inner ends of the two levers, lever G rotating the receiver I through the medium of the rack g and the pinion i, and lever E operating the separating and releasing arms D and N through the medium of the link eand the screw (1 \Vhen these operations are complete, although the tacks will not always wedge in the spout and the intervention of the tack-separating arm is not always necessary, the above-mentioned parts will automatically return to their normal positions under the impulse of the springs M, M, and g and are ready for another operation. It is also quite obvious that my improvements can be used in the driving and distributing of small nails as well as for tacks without in any way departing from the spirit of my invention.

The slit I) in the spout b is to allow of the unimpeded rotation of the receiver I when there is a tack therein with its end projecting into the said spout, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, where 0 represents a tack in posi* tion ready to bedisposed of in the manner hereinbefore described.

\Vhat I-claim as my invention is- 1. In a combined tack hammer and distribut-er, the combination of a tack-receptacleprovided. with a hopper-shaped neck terminating in an outlet, said receptacle having therein a plate with key-hole slots therein and provided with a centrally-located standard surmounted by a disk. upon which tacks strike and are inverted thereby, said slots affording passage for and guiding said tacks heads first into sliding contact with said neck and into said outlet, substantially as shown and described.

:2. In a combined tack. hammer and distributer, the combination of a tack-receptacle provided with an outlet and having therein an obstruction upon which tacks strike and are inverted thereby, a separating-arm and a releasing-arm in said outlet, and a receiver for the released tacks, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a combined tack hammer and distributer, the combination of a tack-receptacle provided with a hopper-shaped neck terminatin g in an outlet with a separating-arm and a releasing-arn1 therein, a receiver for the released tacks, and a plate in said receptacle with key-hole slots therein and provided with a standard surmounted by a disk upon which tacks strike and are inverted. thereby and guided heads first into said outlet, substantially as shown. and described.

4. In a combined tack hammer and distributor, the combination of a tack-receptacle provided with an outlet and having therein IIO an obstruction upon which tacks strike and are inverted and guided thereby into said outlet heads first, a separating-arm and a releasing-arm in said outlet operated conjointly by a single lever, and a receiver for the released tacks, substantially as shown and described.

5. In a combined tack hammer and distributer, the combination of a tack-receptacle provided with an outlet having therein a separating-arm and a releasing-arm, one of said arms being actuated bya lever and communicating its motion to the other arm through contact therewith, and a receiver for the released tacks, substantially as shown and described.

6. In a combined tack hammer and distributer, the combination of a tack-receptacle provided with an outlet having therein a separating-arm and a releasin g-a rm, an obstruction in said receptacle on which the tacks strike and are inverted and guided thereby into said outlet, and an oscillating receiver-operated by a lever for the released tacks, substantially as shown and described.

'7. In a combined tack hammer and distributer, the combination of a tack-receptacle provided with an outlet having therein a separating-arm and a releasing-arm, an obstruction in said receptacle on which the tacks strike and are inverted and guided thereby into said outlet, and an oscillating receiver for the released tacks operated by a lever and provided with a magnetized bottom, substantially as shown and described.

8. In a combined tack hammer and distributer, the combination of a tack-receptacle provided with an outlet having therein a separating-arm and a releasing-arm operated by a single lever, an obstruction in said receptacle on which the tacks strike and are inverted and guided thereby into said outlet, an oscillating receiver for the released tacks operated by a lever, said arms and receiver operating successively through the engagement of their respective levers, substantially as shown and described.

9. I11 a combined tack hammer and distributer, the combination of a tack-receptacle provided with an outlet having a separatingarm and a releasing-arm therein, an obstruction in said receptacle on which tacks strike and are inverted and guided thereby into said outlet, a hammer-head at the side of the outlet, and an oscillating receiver for the released tacks adapted to receive the tacks in an inverted condition and distribute them in a reverse condition at the side of said hammerhead, substantially as shown and described.

10. In a combined tack hammer and distributer, the combination of a tack-receptacle provided with a spout having therein a separating-arm and a releasing-arm, an operatinglever for said arm having a twist therein between its pivotal point and outer end, an obstruction in said receptacle on which tacks strike and are inverted and guided thereby into said outlet, and an oscillating receiver for the released tacks operated by a lever,whereby the twisted end of the arm-operating lever may spring into contact with the receiver-operating lever after said arms have completed their movements, substantially as shown and described.

11. In a combined tack hammer and distributor, the combination of a tack-receptaole provided with an outlet having therein a separating-arm and a releasingarm, an operating-lever for said arms having a shank wit-h a thumb-piece on its outer end, an obstruction in said receptacle on which the tacks strike and are inverted and gu ided thereby into said outlet, an oscillating receiver for the released tacks having thereon a pinion, and a lever having on its end a rack in engagement with said pinion and in its other end a slot for the passage of the thumb-piece shank, both said levers having a common pivot, the outerend of the arm-lever being adapted to spring sufficiently to bring the thumb-piece into contact with the slot-ted end of the receiver-lever, substantially as shown and described.

12. In a combined tack hammer and distributer, the combination of the receptacle A,

provided with the cap a and secured in the flange b of the neck B, the inverting device P, consisting of the plate 19, with the slots 19 therein, the standard 0', and the deflectingdisk R, substantially as shown and described.

13. In a combined -tack hammer and distributor, the combination of the receptacle A, the inverting device P, the neck B, the outlet or spout b, integral with or secured to said neck, the inner diameter of the spout being greater than that of the circular portions 19 of the slots 1), the kerf b in said spout affording entrance for a separating-arm and a releasing-arm for the inverted tacks, and an oscillating receiver for the released tacks, substantially as shown and described.

14. In a combined tack hammer and distributer, the combination of the receptacle A, the inverting device P, the neck B, the spout b, the kerf b the .collar 0, the arm 0, the screw 0 and the pin m the separating and releasing arms D N, providedwith the ends (1 77?, extending through the kerf and into the spout, the screw d in the arm D, adapted to contact with the arm N, the springs M M, secured in the opening 0 in arm 0 and to the ends (Z n of the separating and releasing arms, said arms being suitably operated, and an oscillating receiver for the released tacks, substantially as shown and described.

15. In a combined tack hammer and distributer, the combination of the receptacle A, the inverting device P, the neck 13, the spout Z), the kerf Z)", the collar 0, the arm O, the screw 0 the pin M, the arms D N, the springs M M, attached to the arms 0 D N, the screw (1 in the arm D, lever E, the pin f in the baseplate F, on which the lever is pivoted, the link 6, pivoted on the screws 2 (Z and the shank 71, supporting the thumb-piece II in the outer end of lever E, said lever being adapted to spring into contact with and operate the actuating-lever of an oscillating tack -receiver, substantially as shown and described.

16. In a combined tack hammer and dis tributer, the combination of the receptacle A, the inverting device P, the neck B, the spout b, the kerf b the collar 0, the arm 0', the screw 0 the pin 02 the arms D N, the screw (Z the link 6, the screw 6, the lever E, the pin f, the base'plate F, the thumb-piece H, the shank h, the lever G, pivoted on the pin f and provided at its outer end 9 with the slot g for the passage of said shank, and the receiver I, pivoted on said base-plate and adapted to oscillate under the impulse of said lever G, substantially as shown and described.

17. In acombined-tack hammer and distributer, the combination of the receptacle A, the inverting device P, the neck B, the spout b, the kerf Z), the collar 0, the arm C, the screw 0 the pin 71 the arms D N, the screw (Z the link 6, the screw 6', the lever E, the pin 7", the base-plate F, the thumb-piece H, the shank h, the lever G, the slot g in the end g of lever G, the pin f in the base-plate, the receiver 1, pivoted on said pin and provided with the magnetic bottom t the shell 6, and the pinion 2', the rack g on the end 9 of lever G, engaging with said pinion, the spring g, secured in lever Gand contacting with the pin g the slit b in said spout, and the stops Z l, substantially as shown and described.

18. In a combined tack hammer and distributer, the combination of the base-plate F, the hammer k, the handle K, the screws f, securing the plate to the handle, the oppositely-disposed arms f f of the base-plate at the side of said hammer-head, the bent por tion f of the base-plate, the receptacle A, provided with the neck 13 and having therein an inverting device, the spout Z), containing suitably operated separating and releasing f the screw to, the flange b, the neck B, the

receptacle A, provided with the cap a and containing the inverting device P, the spout b, the kerfs b in said spout, the collar 0, the arm 0, the screw 0 and pin 01 the arms D N, pivoted 011 said screw and pin and their ends (1- n extending through the kerfs into the spout and having the eyes (1 n in their outer ends (I n, the springs M M, secured to the end of the arm 0 and in the eyes (1 n, the screw (Z in the arm D, adapted to contact with the arm N, the link 6, the screw 6, the lever E, the pin f, the washer f and crosspin f the shank h, supporting the thumbpiece II and having the shoulder 71, the lever G, pivoted on said pin f, the washer f the enlarged end g of the lever G, with the slot 9 therein, the rack g on the inner end g of said lever, the pinion t' on the enlargement 2; of the receiver I in engagement with said rack, the magnetic receiver-bottom 2' the flaring shell i the pin f", 011 which said receiver is pivoted, the spring g in the lever G, the contact-pin for said spring, and the stops Z Z, substantially as shown and described.

Signed at Buckingham, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, this 13th day of April, A. D. 1889.

JOHN S. BAILEY.

\Vitnesscs: 1

WILLIAM WA'rsoN, T. BAROLAYBAILEY. 

